Esteban Prieto

Three local authorities in Kent – Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council and Thanet District Council – have fallen victim to near-simultaneous and potentially linked cyber attacks, knocking multiple public-facing systems across Kent offline. All three authorities are understood to be working alongside the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on incident response and remediation. … Leer más

Google is reinforcing its commitment to the UK by building a $1bn datacentre on a 33-acre site in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, to provide enterprises with locally hosted access to its public cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services. The build will mark a sizeable expansion of the company’s UK datacentre footprint, and is being hailed … Leer más

Dedicated business connectivity provider Telcom will be a strategic partner to deliver its Preconnect connected building solution for the commercial office space at St Michael’s Manchester, a £400m mixed-use development. A long-term project by development company of ex-Manchester United footballer and pundit Gary Neville, Relentless Developments and other partners, St Michael’s combines nine floors of office space with … Leer más

Two recent major contracts point to the return of big outsourcing contracts. Earlier in January, Canada Post announced it has entered into an agreement to transition Innovapost, its IT shared-service provider, to Deloitte Canada, in a bid to improve the delivery of digitally enabled products and services. Vodafone also announced a $1.5bn, 10-year deal … Leer más

Data has never been more valuable. It’s the lifeblood of modern business and is simultaneously increasingly vulnerable to attack. The growing use of hybrid cloud and remote working means that bad actors have a larger attack surface than ever before. The result? A rapidly evolving threat landscape that’s progressively more difficult to police. On … Leer más

London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable people and the rising costs being borne by local authorities. In 2017, telecommunications providers announced their plans to switch off the UK’s old … Leer más

Ciaran Martin, the founding chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is to join the recently launched Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) non-profit as chair of its technical committee The CMC is a partnership between law firm Weightmans and insurer CFC, and is described as a “first-of-its-kind” project to independently declare and … Leer más

At the same time that UK political parties vie in their condemnation of the Post Office scandal, they unite in their promotion of AI as the answer to tricky social problems. This means that, in effect, they are arguing for more of the same; for more occasions where computing and bureaucracy combine to mangle … Leer más

Government plans to update the UK’s surveillance laws could divert tech companies away from safeguarding the privacy and security of their customers towards meeting the surveillance needs of government. The warning from technology companies comes in a briefing for government ministers on the risks posed by government plans to modernise the Investigatory Powers Act … Leer más